Coin-actuated mechanism.



W. M. HOLLOWAY. COIN AOTUATED MECHANISM. APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1911.

Patented M8119, 1915.

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Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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1,131,628. APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1911. Patented Mar. 9,

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 19. 1911.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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WILLIAM H. HOLLOWAY, 01? AUSTIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 UHARLES W. SHONE COMPANY, OF CHICAGCLJLLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

OOIN-AGTUATED mncm'msm.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. HOLLO- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing My invention relates to improvements in coin actuated mechanism adapted for use in money banks to register the amount of the deposit. j In this machine coins of dlflerent denominations may be received through the same slot and fall into a selecting device cons sting of a pivoted carrier chute having an mclined side which posit1ons the coins according to denomination, and whlch being oscillated on its pivot carries the coins flatwise past a series of lugs positioned to encounted each one, a coin of different denomination and which lugs actuate the registering device of a toy bank for registering the amount of money deposited m the bank. The oscillating coin carrier upon being returned coincides with a gate or passage to discharge the coin from the carrler into the receiving chamber of the bank and when the register indicates the deposit of a certain amount, a projection upon the wheel of higher denominations, operates a latch, and opens a door in the bottom of the casing to permit the withdrawal of the money from the bank. I

The invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts all fully descr1bed with reference to the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointe out in the claims. L

i In the drawings Figure 1 1s a front view of a toy bank containing this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 5; Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line H of Fig. 5; Fig. 5 1s-a .front view similar to Fig. 1 showing the easing removed or in section; Fig. 6 1s a View similar to Fig. 5 with some of the parts re-.

moved. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the mechanism removed from the casing; Fi is a horizontal section on the line 0 Fig. 2 "Fig.9 is a vertical section on the line 9-9 of :Fig. 8; Fig. -10 is a side elevat on of one of the registering wheels showing the numerals Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 19, 1911.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

Serial No. 628,169.

permits the carrier to be swung in either direction, but requires the movement of the carrier to be complete in one direction or the other before the pawl will permit its reversal. Attached to the carrier chute is the operating handle 15 which projects through a slot 16 in the casing 17.

The chute or carrier 11 is provided with two plates 18, 19, placed parallel to each other and sufficiently near together so that a coin of any denomination dropped into the chute will be held in an upright position.

The construction is such that the coin is held flatwise, with its faces parallel to the axis of the carrier, and is sustained in position in the chute according to its denomination by the stops 20, 21, 22, arranged in the chute to suit the diameter of the various coins. The sample illustrated is intended to accommodate the varying diameters of dimes, nickels and quarters. The edge of the chute between the stops as at 23, 24, 25, is cut away to expose a segment of the coin lodged in the chute. The coin carrier chute has two spring connections 26, 27 with the frame of the machine so that in whichever way the carrier chute may be moved by the handle 15, the springs will return it to the normal position indicated at Fig. 4. In this normal position the mouth of the coin carrier chute is immediately beneath the coin slot 28 in the case of the machine. To protect the interior of the bank from being tampered with through the outer coin slot, and to prevent the dropping in of coins when the carrier chute is not in normal position and ready to receive a coin, a guard plate 29 carried on the segment 30 pivoted to the axis 12, is held by the spring 31 connected to the framework of the machine at one of its ends and to the trigger 32 at its other end. This trigger 32, when the coin carrier chute is in its normal osition, bears against the projection 33, integral with the carrier chute, and thus holds the slots 34 of the guard plate 29 coincident with the mouth of the coin carrier chute. But when the coin carrier chute is moved forward by its handle 15 the upper edge of the trigger 32 comes in contact with a projection 35 of the frame of the machine, which forces the trigger down and releases it from the projection 33, whereupon the spring 31 retracts the guard plate to such position as to close and guard the outer coin.

slot in the casingof the machine. Said guard plate remains in this position until the coin carrier chute is returned to the limit of its back movement whereupon the projection 33 on the carrier chute rides over and gets behind the trigger 32 and thus picks up the guard plate and uncovers the coin carrier chute in the latters return to normal or open position.

Axially coincident with the coin carrier chute, and preferably pivoted upon the same shaft 12, is the geared segment 36, meshing with the pinion 37, loose 'on the shaft 38, for actuating the registering mechanism. This registering mechanism con-:

sists of two wheels, the cents wheel 39 and the dollar wheel 40 both loose on the shaft 38. Attached to the cents wheel 39 is a double ratchet 41 connected by a spring pawl 42 with the pinion 37 in such manner that when the geared segment is moved forward or in the direction of the arrow the pinion 37 is caused to pick up the cents wheel and move it through an arc corresponding to the arc through which the segment 36 has passed. A second pawl 43 from the frame of the machine engaging the double ratchet holds the gain thus made by the cents wheel while the toothed segment 36 and pinion 37 are returning to their normal or starting position. Between the cents wheel and the dollar wheel are two gears, a mutilated gear 44 attached "to the cents wheel and a complete gear 45 attached to the dollar wheel.

' A mutilated pinion 46ilhaving six teeth on one side and three on t e other connects the two numeral wheels in such manner that when .the wheel of the cents denomination makes one complete revolution the motion is carried to the dollar wheel'and the latter is moved forward one pulse.

Attached to the dollarwheel is the supplemental disk 47 to revolve therewith, and carrying on its periphery the cam projections 48, 48. It will be noted that the cents numeral wheel is divided into twenty equal parts, each part representing five cents, onetwentieth of a dollar; and that the dollar wheel is correspondingly divided into twen parts. The cents wheel is marked as in 'cated in Fig. 10 with numerals from 5' to 00 while the dollar wheel is. marked with two successive series of numerals from each reading 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 00, making it to re ister $10.00 twice in a. single revolution. 11 position to be acted upon by the cams 48 above mentioned, in the revolution of the registering wheels, is a pivoted spring latch 49 engaging a hook 50 on the hinged door 51, located in the bottom of the receiving chamber of the bank. It will be it may be closed and the hook 50 will snapby the spring latch and become automatically locked thereto. Reverting now to the segmental gear: This gear ,is connected to the coin carrier chute and caused, to move therewith only through the coin in said chute by projections 52, 53, 54, arranged on the face of the segmental gear in such manmiand in such angular relation that when a twenty-five cent piece is dropped into the chute its exposed face will engage, one of the projections whose angular relation is such that when the coin carrier is moved through its arc of movement it will move the geared segment far enough to advance the cents wheel through an arc indicating twenty-five cents; and so in like manner with the dune and with the five cent piece. It will be noted that because of the fiatwise presentation of the coins to the actuating projections on the gear segment it is possible to insure great certainty of action and differentiation in the case of coins of difierent denomination, even though the sizes of the coins are not proportional to their respective values, This flatwise presentation by offering a largesurface for contact with the projections makes itpossible to utilize projections of differentlengths for difi'erent coins whose difference of value is not rotatable to their difierence in diameter. The flatwise presentation of the coins greatly simplifies their discharge from the coin carrier chute which is efiected in the construcice tion herein described through the lateral opening 55 normally covered by the spring held gate 56; The outside edge of the coin carrier chute being at all times open, the.

coins are only held-in b their contact with the frame plate 57. A deposited in the carrier chute, and said car'- rier chute has been moved through a comlete down stroke, upon its return after passmg the normal or open position and being r a coin has been carried to the termination of the return movement, said carrier chute will pick up the gate 56 by contact with the rojection 58 and push it out of the way, us bringing the open side of the carrier chute coincident with the opening 55, whereupon the coin will roll out into the deposit compartment 59 of the bank.

I claim v i 1. In a mechanism for registering coins of different-denominations, a graduated coin carrier chute for holding the coins in difrec ferent positions according to their size and in which the coins are held flatwise to the direction of movement of the chute, said chute being oscillatable about a horizontal axis and its graduations being arranged to hold coins ofdifierent diameters at different distances from said axis, registering mechanism, and devices intermediate the registering mechanism and the coin carrier chute engaged and directly operated by the coins in the chute when the latter is oscillated, substantially as specified.

2. In a mechanism for registering coins of different denominations the combination of registering mechanism, a casing having a verticalpartition therein provided with a coin discharge opening, and actuating devices therefor comprising a graduated, oscillatory coin carrier chute movable about a horizontal axis and adapted to hold the coins flatwise to the direction of movement discharge the coins through the dischargeopening at the end of its forward movement, substantially as specified.

3. In a mechanism for registering coins of diiferent denominations, a casing having a single deposit opening therein for all the difi'erent coins, a coin carrier chute oscillatable about a horizontal axis and adapted to retain the coins flatwise to the direction of movement of the chute, register wheels,

and a cogged segment having a projection located so as to be directly engaged by a coin positioned fiatwise in said chute, said cogged segment operating the register wheels, substantially as specified.

4. In a multiple coin registering and adding bank having a single deposit opening for coins of varying denominations, the oscillatory coin carrier chute having an open side adjacent to a stationary frame plate containing a coin discharge opening, the coin being received and positioned fiat- Wise to the direction of the motion of said carrier chute, in combination with a cogged segment pivoted on the same axis as the carrier chute and having projections positioned to directly engage coins of different denominations held flatwise in the carrier,

7 such projections having different angular relations to impart movement to the cogged segment corresponding to the value of the coin engaged.

5. In a multiple coin registering and adding bank, having a single deposit opening for coins of varying denominations and an OS- cillatory coin carrier chute, the combination of means for closing the deposit opening automatically by the movement of the coin carrierchute whereby the said deposit opening is closed at all times-except when in registry with the mouth of the coin carrier chute, said means consisting of a pivoted spring-held guard plate provided with a spring trigger for connecting it with the carrier chute and disconnecting it therefrom by the movement of said carrier chute. 7 WILLIAM M. HOLLOWAY;

Witnesses:

C. A. PORTMAN, A. B. 

